SOLVED: WTH # 083 with Tailfins 1 - 1966 Ferrari 330GT Golden Car by Drogo for Navarro

[sixtee5cuda]

For one point, tell me the year, make, model, and coachbuilder of this high-performance car.

Besides the model of the car it is based on, this car is known by two other names.  For another point, provide one of these names.

[sixtee5cuda]

Up!

Time for some Expert attention.

[frederick59]

Lamborghini base?

[sixtee5cuda]

Italian base, but not Lamborghini

[frederick59]

Maserati?

[sixtee5cuda]

Not a Maserati

[frederick59]

Ferrari?

[sixtee5cuda]

That is a Ferrari

[thewarlord]

Drogo Ferrari 330GT from 1966, if I am not wrong

[sixtee5cuda]

One point goes to TheWarlord for the correct answer.

Before I move this over to Solved, can you provide one of the two other names the car was known by?

[thewarlord]

sorry, I vaguely recall something -and it wasn't 'beautiful', I think-, but never took note of that.

[sixtee5cuda]

Drogo has made some attractive cars, and a lot of strange or ugly cars.  This is definitely one of the later.  How about a nice front view?

[fyreline]

The car was called the "Navarro" (after the client, I believe), and sometimes simply "The Golden Car".  Most contemporary descriptions of it contain a reference to money not buying taste. Can't argue with that.

[sixtee5cuda]

A point for you, FyreLine.

[Delorean]

This is chassisnumber #07979 and painted red later in it's life. Somebody knows if it still exists these days?

[Carnut]

The car was called the "Navarro" (after the client, I believe), and sometimes simply "The Golden Car".  Most contemporary descriptions of it contain a reference to money not buying taste. Can't argue with that.

This is chassisnumber #07979 and painted red later in it's life. Somebody knows if it still exists these days?

Indeed it was later painted red (see below).
Actually it was called the "Navarro" after its designer, Norbert Navarro, who created it for US Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti, renowned for his mostly rather ugly one-off Ferraris.
I don't know specifically that it still survives, but I would be extremely surprised if it's not in some US collector's garage somewhere...

[Wendax]

The repaint and the omission of the chrome panels behind the side windows didn't make it prettier, just less authentic.

[Allemano]

In the same league with this one: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=5886.0

[Carnut]

In the same league with this one: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=5886.0

It would make a good thread; ugliest cars of all time!
The say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but personally I don't subscribe to that.
Attraction might be according to the eye of the beholder but beauty (just like ugliness) is definable (in my opinion!)

[fyreline]

The saying is, "Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly is to the bone!"

Enzo Stuarti was a fairly talented nightclub singer who enjoyed a decent career in the USA. He was a prolific car collector and racing enthusiast, and did some TV commercial work for Ragu Spaghetti Sauce in the 1970's. His tag line was, "Atsa nice!", and one commercial showed him tooling through Italy in an early Lamborghini 400GT . . . Likely that car's only such exposure. In any case, his later taste in cars was a bit more strange, judging by that horrible Stuarti Sonata and also his Bugazzi (look it up if you dare). Oh, well - there's no accounting for taste . . . Or the lack of it.

[sixtee5cuda]

As I discovered in Seattle today, the car does still exist, and has returned to the proper gold color.  I was absolutely stunned, to be driving down a side street, and see a bizarre gold Ferrari stopped alongside the road.

[sixtee5cuda]

Once the mechanic got it running properly, it sang a lovely song.

[sixtee5cuda]

Further research indicates the car belongs to Goodman Racing, a mile or 2 from where I found the car.  They finished an extensive restoration in 2009.